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Very Cool Handbag

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Show and Tell - Share your treasures' started by listitcafe, Apr 28, 2010.

  1. listitcafe

    listitcafe Registered Guest

    I just got this small wrist bag its embossed vinyl with plastic elephants running across front... The scenes on front back and inside are all different.
    -Chris
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  2. cmpollack

    cmpollack VFG Member

    That's gorgeous, Chris!

    I had one of these bags, but much cruder tooling and a lot fewer elephants! Yours looks earlier, too...
     
  3. vivavintageclothing

    vivavintageclothing VFG Member

  4. The Vintage Merchant

    The Vintage Merchant Administrator Staff Member

  5. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

    It's lovely, I've had one like it before but without the elephants (I believe they are celluloid elephants) I really like the side with the Geisha girls.

    I would think it dates to the early 1930s and would have been made as a Japanese export item.

    Beautifully tooled leather work.
     
  6. listitcafe

    listitcafe Registered Guest

    Just got in today had another call.... I loved that bag when I first saw it..... I got some other good ones too... But this one I had never seen before.....

    -CHris
     
  7. Love it; it's very unique and whimsical.
     
  8. Wow! Very unique. Love it! :wub:
     
  9. amandainvermont

    amandainvermont VFG Member

  10. fashionpoor

    fashionpoor Registered Guest

    Adorable! I love elephants!!! :D
     
  11. joules

    joules VFG Member

    Chris, this is what I always love about what you pick up on. This is one of those items that has that magical quality! Feels like it would be seen in an old classic movie, with an exotic setting. Celluloid elephants? Oh my!
     
  12. vintagedevotion

    vintagedevotion VFG Board Member

    Wow, that certainly is very cool. Never seen anything quite like it.
     
  13. listitcafe

    listitcafe Registered Guest

    I did pretty well this week... Have so many things to sort through....... I think this bag is my favorite. I never seen anything like it....

    -Chris
     
  14. Midge

    Midge Super Moderator Staff Member

    What a cute bag! The book from the Hendrikje Museum of Handbags has photos of a few similar bags, all dated 1925-35, made in Japan.

    Karin
     
  15. listitcafe

    listitcafe Registered Guest

    I just saw it in a Purse book too....! It is laminated leather. At first I thought vinyl. The lady I bought it from had it tagged as 60's.... That bag looks better everyday.

    -Chris
     
  16. MyVintageCocktail

    MyVintageCocktail VFG Member

    Chris, it's gorgeous! I had a fabric one with celluloid elephants, but not as many elephants, and not as fancy. Are you keeping this, or selling it?
     
  17. listitcafe

    listitcafe Registered Guest

    Keep or sell it....Probally sell it on my new site...Though I want to grab it and yell its mine mine mine.

    -Chris
     
  18. cmpollack

    cmpollack VFG Member

    Yes, hard to believe but it's tooled (or embossed?) leather. Such a gorgeous example...
     
  19. listitcafe

    listitcafe Registered Guest

    I dont know it is so detailed the leaves are so detailed I would almost say handtooled....Never seen anything old are new this elaborate. And I used to handtool and paint leather myself.....

    -CHris
     
  20. TinTrunk

    TinTrunk Registered Guest

    How fabulous! That cascade of elephants tickles me too!

    I can see that one being hard to part with :)

    Sarah
     

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